Have you heard of Eye-TV? It might be exactly what you're looking for. Here's a link to an introductory review (though it's almost 2 years old): http://www.macintoshdigitalhub.com/reviews/eyetv/ Try Googling Eye-TV and you'll get a lot more info. Brian On 5/14/04 7:38 AM, "Charles Pearce" <charlesp at ksu.edu> wrote: > I'm interested in TiVo or some other kind of DVR. I want to be able to > record from cable, as with TiVo to time-shift, etc., but I would also > like the capabilities of being able to take the digital video and > somehow get it into a desktop G4 with a DVD burner, to--you guessed > it--burn the video onto a DVD.